Reviews

Lunch in beautiful surroundings

“I recently visited the Garden Cafe and enjoyed a super casual home cooked lunch, there are delicious cakes and the surroundings are rural and calm. The staff are all very friendly, I would highly recommend a visit.”

Lovely Lunch

“Glorious to sit outside at the Munnings Garden Cafe, enjoying delicious food and fine ale in lovely surroundings, attentively and cheerily looked after and all very good value. Thoroughly recommended.”

- Roger Styles

Visit 7th April 2015

“30 members visited the Munnings Museum and prior to our tour we enjoyed a lovely lunch sitting outside in the sunshine. We had soup, and then a substantial ham salad, followed by scones with cream and jam. All beautifully presented and served at our tables. A memorable occasion.”

Delightful

“A delightful cafe with friendly new owners and delicious cake! The surroundings are quintessentially English complete with horses and rabbits in the adjoining meadow. We have yet to try lunch but look forward to the experience. If the weather is good there is the added bonus of sitting outside and importantly the parking space is great and a far cry from the village High Street.”

Lunch

Gorgeous food, the best service!

“We are a local company with our main office in Dedham. The Garden Cafe supplies our staff with lunches and we are absolutely delighted to have found such a wonderful place. The quality of the food and the friendly service is impeccable. We would not want to get lunch from anywhere else, everyone looks forward to the delicious sandwiches and the staff are so kind and helpful. We really appreciate such a fabulous company and the homemade lemon cake is the subject of much talk in the office! Thank you.”

- Kimberley Miller

Good start to an afternoon

“Lunch before our visit to the Museum. Bright sunny day, bright sunny welcome from Chef and his wife. Delicious soup with homemade sourdough bread to start. Next an exciting choice from freshly made quiches, ham, sea bas, etc. Each accompanied by an attractively presented wide variety of salad ingredients. Washed down by a cool beer, heaven!”

- George Cowie

5 star food and service!

“We came for afternoon tea on a drizzly June day. We were offered blankets which made us toasty warm. The service was fantastic and the food was delicious all for such a good price. What a beautiful setting too. Thank you all.. we will definitely be back... and hopefully the sun will be shining next time!”

- KIM CLARK

Fabulous

“Spent a lovely couple of hours in the sunshine enjoying afternoon tea. Sandwiches, scones, m eringues and cake all made to your liking plus lots of cups of tea. Ate till we could eat no more! I'm certainly going to come back and try lunch next.”

Fanulous

“What a lovely experience. The food was amazing. The lovely people who run the cafe made the effort even when the lunch time was officially finished! No problem for them. The quality of the salads and sandwiches was high. See you soon!”

- Gil Holmes

Fanulous

“What a lovely experience. The food was amazing. The lovely people who run the cafe made the effort even when the lunch time was officially finished! No problem for them. The quality of the salads and sandwiches was high. See you soon!”

- Gil Holmes

Afternoon Tea

“What a lovely way to end an afternoon after a visit to this wonderful museum house and grounds. Afternoon Tea in the garden was made very special by all the wonderful staff at the cafe. They all went out of their way to make our visit special and the quality and the quantity of the food was second to none. A special mention for the home made scones as they were the best that we have ever tasted and the "Surprise" Pavlova was fabulous. A big thank you to all the staff.”

- Les and Mary Finan

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About The Munnings Art Museum

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Sir Alfred Munnings (1878-1959) was an immensely successful, yet controversial, artist whose career spanned almost 70 years. He was not only a major figure in the great tradition of British equestrian art but also celebrated for his depictions of scenes from English rural life. Visitors to the Munnings Art Museum at his former home, Castle House, can explore the life and work of this prolific East Anglian artist through a series of carefully curated displays, selected from the museum’s comprehensive collection of his work.

The Café's opening hours are 10am to 5:00pm and the Museum is open 2pm to 5pm Wednesday – Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays (APRIL to OCTOBER). Please check in advance if we are open at other times.